Main description:

Sharpen your diagnostic and problem-solving skills with these 85 selected pediatric teaching cases, fully detailed and illustrated

Going well beyond the purely theoretical, this collection of cases will help you simulate the thought process you would engage when working with real patients. Supplemented by excellent color photographs and radiologic images, diagnostic imaging studies, lab results, tables and schematics, and more, the book is packed with valuable information that will help clear your way to greater confidence in managing your pediatric patients.

Key Features:

Great clinical relevance with emphasis on a case- and problem-oriented approach
Suggestions for questions to ask in taking the history
Answer section with detailed commentary on the individual cases
Cases highlighting social pediatrics, adolescent psychiatry, and pediatric surgery
Training in the use of diagnostic imaging
Helpful as a supplement when preparing for board examinations

Kreckmann's Pediatrics: A Case Book will be a valuable companion for students and interns preparing for clinical rotations and for pediatric board examinations as well.

This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

Contents:

Case 1 Six-year-old boy with high fever, vomiting, and headache

Case 2 Child with barking cough and dyspnea

Case 3 Child with high fever and seizure

Case 4 Apathetic infant with persistent skin folds

Case 5 Two-year old girl with colic-like stomach pains and vomiting

Case 6 Twelve-month old boy comes for a health screening

Case 7 Ten-year-old boy with painfully swollen knee

Case 8 Girl with petechial dermatorrhagie

Case 9 Infant with projectile vomiting

Case 10 Young girl with recurrent shortness of breath

Case 11 Fourteen-month-old toddler with "runny ear"

Case 12 Three-year-old boy who has had contact with chicken pox

Case 13 Five-year-old girl with a swollen jaw angle

Case 14 Severely ill infant with cough and shortness of breath

Case 15 Young girl with difficulty swallowing and fatigue

Case 16 Two-year-old boy with coughing fit and cyanosis

Case 17 Twelve-month old boy with screaming fit and swollen testicles

Case 18 Eight-year-old boy with macrohematuria

Case 19 Boy almost 1-year-old with failure to thrive

Case 20 Macrosomal newborn after obstructed labor with shoulder dystocia

Case 21 Ten-year-old girl with fever and headache

Case 22 Eight-year-old boy with high fever and rash

Case 23 Five-year-old girl after fall from jungle gym

Case 24 Infant with high fever, sucking weakness, and vomiting

Case 25 Toddler burned by boiling water

Case 26 Five-year-old girl with abdominal pain and anal itching

Case 27 Fourteen-year-old girl with weight loss and social withdrawal

Case 28 Newborn whose mother has poorly controlled diabetes mellitus

Case 29 Five-year-old girl with hematuria

Case 30 Three-year-old boy with numerous pigment spots

Case 31 Feverish 2-year-old girl with pustulent crusty rash

Case 32 Hypotrophic newborn with abnormal phenotype

Case 33 Five-year-old boy with knee pain and protective limping

Case 34 Ten-year-old boy with scleral icterus

Case 35 Fifteen-month-old child with an abrasion and no tetanus vaccination

Case 36 Fifteen-year-old girl found unconscious with hypothermia

Case 37 Two-year-old child who has ingested an unknown fluid

Case 38 Five-day-old newborn with icterus and sucking weakness

Case 39 Three-year-old girl refusing to eat

Case 40 Newborn with morphological abnormalities

Case 41 Two siblings with itching eczematous changes on the skin of the neck and head

Case 42 Consultation regarding "sudden infant death syndrome" (SIDS)

Case 43 Five-year-old boy with high fever and abdominal pain

Case 44 Four-year-old boy with recurrent urinary tract infections

Case 45 Seven-year-old boy with pneumonia and bone pain

Case 46 Four-year-old boy with fever and exanthema

Case 47 Four-year-old girl with facial swelling

Case 48 Five-year-old girl with pale skin and splenomegaly

Case 49 Seven-year-old girl with headaches and abnormal behavior

Case 50 Four-year-old boy with pain in right lower abdomen

Case 51 Three-year-old girl with protective posture of right arm

Case 52 Ten-year-old boy with tingling paresthesia, speech disorder, and headache

Case 53 Sixteen-month old boy with undescended testis

Case 54 Eight-year-old boy with abdominal pain and weight loss

Case 55 Premature birth in 28th week of pregnancy with shortness of breath and abdominal pain on pressure

Case 56 Five-year-old boy with intense abdominal pain

Case 57 Two-year-old boy with high fever, rash, and swollen joints

Case 58 Four-month-old screaming infant with inguinal swelling

Case 59 Nineteen-month-old girl with bloody diarrhea, hematomas, and anuria

Case 60 Newborn with persistent cyanosis

Case 61 Four-year-old boy with rattling breath and hypersalivation

Case 62 Six-year-old boy with failure to thrive and recurrent pulmonary infections

Case 63 Fourteen-year-old girl who collapsed on a school trip

Case 64 Three-year-old boy with deteriorating general condition and gastroenteritis

Case 65 Healthy newborn delivered by cesarean section

Case 66 Eleven-year-old boy with high fever and joint pain

Case 67 Newborn boy with conspicuous genitals

Case 68 Six-year-old girl with abnormal appearance

Case 69 Premature baby with acute deterioration of general condition

Case 70 Four-year-old girl with fatigue and difficulty concentrating

Case 71 Exasperated parents with an 8-week-old screaming baby in the emergency department

Case 72 Five-month-old infant with severe cough for the past few weeks

Case 73 Fourteen-year-old girl with recurrent abdominal pain

Case 74 Fifteen-year-old boy with no signs of progressing puberty

Case 75 Two separate cases of infants following a fall from the changing table

Case 76 Attention in the delivery room for newborns with congenital deformities

Case 77 Newborn born in the 41st week of pregnancy after pathological CTG

Case 78 Young boy with palpitations, reduced performance, and shortness of breath

Case 79 Almost two-year-old boy, with neurodermatitis

Case 80 A young colleague during the pediatric admission examination

Case 81 Five-month old boy with therapy-resistant diarrhea

Case 82 Thirteen-year-old school girl with petechiae in poor general condition

Case 83 Fourteen-month old boy with persistent nosebleed and hematomas

Case 84 Uncontrollable six-year-old boy with aggressive behavior

Case 85 Twelve-year-old boy with painful swelling of the right foot

Appendix

Sources of Images

Forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

Childhood diseases

Body mass index

Important reference values

Index